In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, The Plain Sense of Things tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska family. These tales of sorrow and hope are connected by the sinews of need and flawed love that keep families together. A farm wife struggles to support her children after the death of her second husband; a young woman grapples with the shift from girlhood to motherhood; World War II wreaks havoc on those left behind; and a failing farmstead breaks a family's heart. Amid hardship and change, these interwoven stories illuminate the resilience and d.
Publisher:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
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Acknowledgments; Ghost Town; Hard Times Ahead; Sliding Down the Milky Way; Be Careful What You Wish For; Elitch Gardens; Never Mind; Good-bye, Old Kid; Pipe Dreams; Wonderful Words of Life; Lost Boy; How Is It Where You Are?; Fibber McGee's Closet; Secrets; Saved; I Wonder Why-why-why-why; Little Deaths & Minor Resurrections; Love Songs.
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